Microsoft has announced a new edition of Windows 10, aimed for power users. The new version, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations has four major selling points over existing editions.
Firstly, there is ReFS (Resilient file system), a file system that provides cloud-grade resiliency for data on fault-tolerant storage spaces and manages very large volumes with ease. Using its integrity streams, ... [ read the full article ]
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All MS OS's these days are based on their Server OS, they have been doing this since they started focusing on NT as their base platform after the 95' days. They just strip down to the various versions based on the server OS.
So opening up to 4 Opteron's and 6TB RAM is a Workstation move for Windows 10 Pro as others had implied previously. It's a marketing move just like down tuning their OS's for Home Basic versions, Pro versions, and so on.
There are gamer's that will use 4 Opteron's and boo-goo RAM for their platform so it could be said this will benefit them as well.
Cores and Physical CPU's are quite different so KillerBug is right on.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE QUOTE:
Quote: Finally, the new Windows edition adds support for server-grade CPUs, like Intel Xeon and AMD's Opteron series, allowing the operating system to utilize all the horsepower in such CPUs. This means support for up to 4 CPUs (currently max of 2 CPUs is supported) and support for 6TB of memory (current limit is 2TB).
Originally posted by Mr-Movies: All MS OS's these days are based on their Server OS, they have been doing this since they started focusing on NT as their base platform after the 95' days. They just strip down to the various versions based on the server OS.
So opening up to 4 Opteron's and 6TB RAM is a Workstation move for Windows 10 Pro as others had implied previously. It's a marketing move just like down tuning their OS's for Home Basic versions, Pro versions, and so on.
There are gamer's that will use 4 Opteron's and boo-goo RAM for their platform so it could be said this will benefit them as well.
Cores and Physical CPU's are quite different so KillerBug is right on.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE QUOTE:
Quote: Finally, the new Windows edition adds support for server-grade CPUs, like Intel Xeon and AMD's Opteron series, allowing the operating system to utilize all the horsepower in such CPUs. This means support for up to 4 CPUs (currently max of 2 CPUs is supported) and support for 6TB of memory (current limit is 2TB).
It is a bit odd that they have gone with this method, even from a workstation perspective. You can get 18-core xeons and quad socket boards in a large workstation...that's 72 cores. Even with the current 'pro' you can have 36 cores...but you can't use an old server with 4 8-core processors in spite of the total core count being lower. On the server side they charging per core...this kind of sucks for those with only a couple 18-core processors and it isn't really a deal even if you had a system with 64 single-core processors. But still...at least it isn't like they are saying that 32 cores is twice as much as 36 cores in a server...only a workstation somehow. Also, it is by socket. If someone put multiple CPUs on a single socket, that's still just one socket. In theory Intel could put 4 16-core CPUs on a single socket and then run 4 of those in the new pro-pro for a total of 256 cores (the maximum pro supports). Not sure why a company would make such expensive chips for such a niche market, but they could if they wanted to.
